Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 222 / Monday, November 20, 2023 / Notices 80689 

1See Certain Quartz Surface Products from India: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, Preliminary Determination 

of No Shipments and Partial Rescission of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021– 

2022, 88 FR 43292 (July 7, 2023) (Preliminary 

Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum (PDM). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

Administrative Review: Certain Quartz Surface 

Products from India, 2021–2022,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

3See Certain Quartz Surface Products from India 

and Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders, 85 FR 

37422 (June 22, 2020) (Order). 

4See Preliminary Results PDM at 5. 

Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) and 

are not included in this survey. The 

program will help the North Carolina 

Department of Agriculture and 

Consumer Services (NCDACS) and 

NCDEQ fulfill the requirements of North 

Carolina state legislation enacted in 

2008 (SL2008–0143). All questionnaires 

included in this information collection 

will be voluntary. This project is 

conducted as a cooperative effort with 

the North Carolina Department of 

Agriculture and Consumer Services. 

Funding for this survey is being 

provided by NCDACS. 

Authority: These data will be 

collected under authority of 7 U.S.C. 

2204(a). Individually identifiable data 

collected under this authority are 

governed by section 1770 of the Food 

Security Act of 1985 as amended, 7 

U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to 

afford strict confidentiality to nonaggregated data provided by 

respondents. This Notice is submitted in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104– 

113, 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office 

of Management and Budget regulations 

at 5 CFR part 1320. 

All NASS employees and NASS 

contractors must also fully comply with 

all provisions of the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, title III 

of Public Law 115–435, codified in 44 

U.S.C. ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS’s 

pledge of confidentiality to all 

respondents and facilitates the agency’s 

efforts to reduce burden by supporting 

statistical activities of collaborative 

agencies through designation of NASS 

agents, subject to the limitations and 

penalties described in CIPSEA. NASS 

uses the information only for statistical 

purposes and publishes only tabulated 

total data. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this information collection is 

based on similar surveys with expected 

response time of 30 minutes. The 

estimated sample size will be 

approximately 3,700. The frequency of 

data collection for the different surveys 

is annual. Estimated number of 

responses per respondent is 1. Publicity 

materials and instruction sheets will 

account for approximately 5 minutes of 

additional burden per respondent. 

Respondents who refuse to complete a 

survey will be allotted 2 minutes of 

burden per attempt to collect the data. 

Respondents: North Carolina 

agricultural operations that likely use 

between 10,000 and 1,000,000 gallons 

annually. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,918 hours. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, technological, or 

other forms of information technology 

collection methods. 

All responses to this notice will 

become a matter of public record and be 

summarized in the request for OMB 

approval. 

Signed at Washington, DC, November 15, 

2023. 

Joseph L. Parsons, 

Associate Administrator. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–533–889] 

Certain Quartz Surface Products From 

India: Final Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review, and Final 

Determination of No Shipments; 2021– 

2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

quartz surface products (quartz surface 

products) from India. We determine that 

Pokarna Engineered Stone Limited 

(PESL) and Marudhar Rocks 

International Pvt. Ltd./Marudhar Quartz 

Surface Private Limited (collectively, 

Marudhar Rocks) did not make sales of 

subject merchandise at less than normal 

value during the period of review (POR) 

June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022. We 

also determine that one company had 

no shipments. 

DATES: Applicable November 20, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laurel LaCivita or Joy Zhang, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office III, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4243 or (202) 482–1168, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 7, 2023, Commerce published 

the Preliminary Results of this review in 

the Federal Register and invited 

interested parties to comment on those 

results.1 For a complete description of 

the events that occurred since the 

Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum.2 Commerce 

conducted this review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Order 3

The products covered by the Order 

are quartz surface products from India. 

For a complete description of the scope, 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs filed by parties in this 

review are listed in Appendix I to this 

notice and addressed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. The Issues and 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed at 

https://access.trade.gov/public/

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Final Determination of No Shipments 

In the Preliminary Results, we 

preliminarily determined that 3HQ 

Surfaces had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR.4 No party 

filed comments with respect to this 

preliminary finding, and we received no 


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5See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Automatic Assessment 

Clarification). 

6 In the Preliminary Results, we preliminarily 

determined to collapse Marudhar Rocks and 

Marudhar Quartz as a single entity for the POR, 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.401(f). See Memorandum, 

‘‘Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing 

Memorandum,’’ dated June 29, 2023. No interested 

parties filed any comments on Commerce’s 

collapsing decision. We continue to treat the two 

companies as a single entity for the final results of 

this administrative review. 

7See Albemarle Corp. v. United States, 821 F.3d 

1345, 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (Albemarle) (holding 

that Commerce may only use ‘‘other reasonable 

methods’’ if it reasonably concludes that the 

expected method is ‘‘not feasible’’ or ‘‘would not be 

reasonably reflective of potential dumping 

margins’’). 

8See Appendix II for a full list of the companies 

not individually examined in this review. 

9See Automatic Assessment Clarification. 

information to contradict it. Therefore, 

we continue to find that 3HQ Surfaces 

had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR and will 

issue appropriate liquidation 

instructions based on the final results of 

this review.5

Rates for Companies Not Selected for 

Individual Examination 

For the rate for non-selected 

respondents in an administrative 

review, generally, Commerce looks to 

section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which 

provides instructions for calculating the 

all-others rate in a market economy 

investigation. Under section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others 

rate is normally ‘‘an amount equal to the 

weighted-average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely {on the 

basis of facts available}.’’ In this 

segment of the proceeding, we 

calculated dumping margins of zero 

percent for both Marudhar Rocks 6 and 

PESL. Thus, in accordance with the 

expected method, and consistent with 

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 

Federal Circuit’s decision in 

Albemarle,7 in this review, we have 

assigned the non-selected companies a 

zero percent margin. 

Final Results of the Review 

Commerce determines the following 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins exist for the period June 1, 

2021, through May 31, 2022: 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Pokarna Engineered Stone Limited .......................................... 0.00 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Marudhar Rocks International 

Pvt. Ltd./Marudhar Quartz Surface Private Limited ................ 0.00 

Non-Selected Companies 8 ........ 0.00 

Disclosure 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed for Marudhar Rocks for these 

final results of review to the parties 

within five days after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). There are no final results 

calculations to disclose for PESL. 

Assessment Rates 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), Commerce 

shall determine, and CBP shall assess, 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries of subject merchandise in 

accordance with the final results of this 

review. For any individually examined 

respondents whose weighted-average 

dumping margin is above de minimis, 

we calculated importer-specific ad 

valorem duty assessment rates by 

dividing the total amount of 

antidumping duties calculated for the 

examined sales by the total entered 

value of the examined sales to that 

importer. Where the respondent did not 

report entered value, we calculated the 

entered value in order to calculate the 

assessment rate. Where either the 

respondent’s weighted-average dumping 

margin is zero or de minimis within the 

meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an 

importer-specific assessment rate is zero 

or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

Commerce’s ‘‘automatic assessment’’ 

will apply to entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR produced 

by PESL or Marudhar Rocks for which 

the company did not know that the 

merchandise it sold to an intermediary 

(e.g., a reseller, trading company, or 

exporter) was destined for the United 

States. In such instances, we will 

instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 

the all-others rate if there is no rate for 

the intermediate company(ies) involved 

in the transaction.9

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual examination, we 

will instruct CBP to assess antidumping 

duties at an ad valorem assessment rate 

equal to the company-specific weightedaverage dumping margin determined in 

these final results. Commerce intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date of the final results of 

this administrative review in the 

Federal Register, as provided for by 

section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) the cash 

deposit rate for companies subject to 

this review will be the rates established 

in these final results of the review; (2) 

for merchandise exported by producers 

or exporters not covered in this review 

but covered in a prior segment of the 

proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the company-specific rate 

published for the most recent period; (3) 

if the exporter is not a firm covered in 

this review, a prior review, or the 

original investigation but the producer 

is, then the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate established for the most recent 

period for the producer of the 

merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate 

for all other producers or exporters will 

continue to be 1.02 percent, the allothers rate established in the 

investigation. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during this review 

period. Failure to comply with this 

requirement could result in Commerce’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties occurred and the subsequent 

assessment of double antidumping 

duties. 

Notification Regarding the 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to the administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

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destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return or destruction 

of APO materials or conversion to 

judicial protective order is hereby 

requested. Failure to comply with the 

regulations and the terms of an APO is 

a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: November 13, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

V. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: The Calculation of 

Constructed Value Profit and Selling 

Expenses for the Final Results 

Comment 2: Whether to Apply an Adverse 

Inference Regarding Marudhar Rocks’ 

Physical Characteristics Reporting 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should 

Accept Marudhar Rocks’ Reported Labor, 

Energy and Variable Overhead 

Comment 4: Whether to Treat Marudhar 

Rocks’ Free Samples as U.S. Sales 

Comment 5: Capping Freight Revenue 

Recovered by Marudhar Rocks 

VI. Recommendation 

Appendix II 

List of Companies Not Selected for 

Individual Examination 

1. Antique Granito Shareholders Trust 

2. Antique Marbonite Private Limited/Prism 

Johnson Limited/Shivam Enterprises 

3. Argil Ceramics 

4. Aro Granite Industries Ltd. 

5. Asian Granito India Limited 

6. Baba Super Minerals Pvt. Ltd. 

7. Camrola Quartz Limited 

8. Classic Marble Company Pvt. Ltd. 

9. Cuarzo 

10. Divya Shakti Granites Ltd 

11. Divya Shakti Ltd 

12. Esprit Stones Private Limited 

13. Global Surfaces Limited 

14. Glowstone Industries Pvt. Ltd. 

15. Hi Elite Quartz LLP 

16. International Stones India Pvt. Ltd. 

17. Keros Stone LLP 

18. Mahi Granites Private Limited 

19. Malbros Marbles and Granites Industries 

20. Mountmine Impex Pvt. Ltd. 

21. Pacific Industries Limited 

22. Pacific Quartz Surfaces LLP 

23. Paradigm Stone India Pvt. Ltd. 

24. Pelican Buildmat Pvt. Ltd. 

25. Pelican Grani Marmo Pvt. Ltd. 

26. Pelican Quartz Stone 

27. QuartzKraft LLP 

28. Renshou Industries 

29. RMC Readymix Porselano India Limited 

30. Rocks Forever 

31. Safayar Ceramics Pvt. Ltd. 

32. Satya Exports 

33. Southern Rocks and Minerals Pvt. Ltd. 

34. Sunex Stones Private Limited 

35. Tab India Granites Pvt. Ltd. 

36. Venkata Sri Balaji Quartz Surfaces 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

United States Travel and Tourism 

Advisory Board: Meeting of the United 

States Travel and Tourism Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States Travel and 

Tourism Advisory Board (Board or 

TTAB) will hold a meeting on Tuesday, 

December 12, 2023. The Board advises 

the Secretary of Commerce on matters 

relating to the U.S. travel and tourism 

industry. The main purpose of this 

meeting is for Board members to discuss 

priority issues related to travel and 

tourism. The final agenda will be posted 

on the Department of Commerce website 

for the Board at https://www.trade.gov/ 

ttab-meetings at least two days prior to 

the meeting. 

DATES: Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EST. The 

deadline for members of the public to 

register for the meeting or to submit 

written comments for dissemination 

prior to the meeting is 5:00 p.m. EST on 

Friday, December 8, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

person in Washington, DC and virtually. 

The location and access information 

will be provided by email to registrants. 

Requests to register (including to speak 

or for auxiliary aids) and any written 

comments should be submitted by email 

to TTAB@trade.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Aguinaga, the United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, 

National Travel and Tourism Office, 

U.S. Department of Commerce; 

telephone: 202–482–2404; email: 

TTAB@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation: The meeting will 

be open to the public and will be 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Any member of the public requesting to 

join the meeting is asked to register in 

advance by the deadline identified 

under the DATES caption. Requests for 

auxiliary aids must be submitted by the 

registration deadline. Last minute 

requests will be accepted but may not be 

possible to fill. There will be fifteen (15) 

minutes allotted for oral comments from 

members of the public joining the 

meeting. To accommodate as many 

speakers as possible, the time for public 

comments may be limited to three (3) 

minutes per person. Members of the 

public wishing to reserve speaking time 

during the meeting must submit a 

request at the time of registration, as 

well as the name and address of the 

proposed speaker. If the number of 

registrants requesting to make 

statements is greater than can be 

reasonably accommodated during the 

meeting, the International Trade 

Administration may conduct a lottery to 

determine the speakers. Speakers are 

requested to submit a written copy of 

their prepared remarks by 5:00 p.m. EST 

on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, for 

inclusion in the meeting records and for 

circulation to the members of the Board. 

In addition, any member of the public 

may submit pertinent written comments 

concerning the Board’s affairs at any 

time before or after the meeting. 

Comments may be submitted to Jennifer 

Aguinaga at the contact information 

indicated above. To be considered 

during the meeting, comments must be 

received no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on 

Wednesday, December 6, 2023, to 

ensure transmission to the Board prior 

to the meeting. Comments received after 

that date and time will be transmitted to 

the Board but may not be considered 

during the meeting. Copies of Board 

meeting minutes will be available 

within 90 days of the meeting. 

This Notice is published pursuant to 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (FACA), 5 U.S.C., app., 

10(a)(2). The Committee was established 

pursuant to section 607 of the Visit 

America Act, Subtitle A of title VI of 

division BB of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 

117–328, and in accordance with the 

provisions of the FACA, 5 U.S.C. 1001 

et seq. 

Jennifer Aguinaga, 

Designated Federal Officer, United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. 

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